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Posted by Matt White on 08/23/07 14:39
On Aug 22, 9:48 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 21 Aug, 22:15, "ish...@gmail.com" <ish...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I want to have the same background color
> > for the active tab and pages while the inactive pages will be a
> > contrasting color. How do I get the tabs to recognize which page is
> > active?
>
> Plain and simple CSS. No client-side scripting, no server-side
> scripting.
>
> Simple way: put class="current" on the current HTML element(s) and use
> simple CSS selectors to change what you need.
>
> Slightly more complex way. The simple way needs the "nav bar" to be
> changed for each different "current". That measn you can't embed it
> via SSI. There's a CSS fix for that too.
>
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.html/msg/53a3118c1d34aec8
This might be less hard-coded, but it's still hard-coded. I believe he
is trying to avoid any hard-coding and have the tab coloring
determined at load-time so that new pages can easily be added without
having to worry about the tab coloring each time.
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